New letter grades were released Thursday by the Louisiana Department of Education.
In 2010, our letter grade was a B. In the seven years since then we have been an A. Our district's letter grade for 2018 using the old formula is an A; our 2018 grade using the new formula is a B. The legislature, out of concern for predicted drops in letter grades, required the Louisiana Department of Education to publish both grades (old formula and new formula). Our district performance score ranks 6th in the state.
There are four A districts this year:
Zachary, Ascension, Lafourche, and Vermillion.
17 districts dropped this year from an A to a B in the new formula, including Central, Livingston, St. Charles, and St. Tammany.
Points to Glow on:
Our ACT composite is 5th in the state; Our African American students also rank 5th in the state on ACT. The ACT score from this year is our fifth highest score in our history. Until 2013, only a 1/3 of our students took the ACT, and now all of our students take ACT.
91 percent graduation cohort rate is the second highest rate in our school system's history. All of our highest graduation rates have come since 2010.
We rank 4th in the percentage of students scoring mastery and advanced in grades 3-9. That percentage is an all time high in our district's history.
All of our schools grew last year. We are .6 from being an A district in the new formula.
The accountability system measures how strong we are with growing kids, our final achievement marks through LEAP 2025 and ACT, as well as our graduation cohort rate.
It is an overall composite of what our district does for kids. Our letter grade is a B in this area. There are many things the metric does not account for but all districts and schools are weighed the same.
As a district, we need to ask ourselves what can we do to move the bar for our kids? We all have the opportunity and a responsibility to find ways to help our students.
If I ask anyone, they would say that we believe we are an A. Well, now is the time to prove it! Starting now, we will take the first step of reclaiming an A which signifies our work to serve all of our kids in such a way that they have no choice but to be successful.
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